Direction: Chris Menges

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Chris Menges. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


A World Apart

1988 · Movie · 113 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Chris Menges

Cast Barbara Hershey · Jodhi May · Jeroen Krabbé · Nadine Chalmers

Plot Apartheid threatens to tear her from her 13-year-old daughter when the first white woman - a journalist - is arrested and put in solitary in 1963 for defying the South...

6.4

193 votes

6.4

193 votes

Second Best

1993 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Chris Menges

Cast William Hurt · Chris Cleary Miles · John Hurt · Jane Horrocks

Plot Academy Award winner William Hurt stars in and Chris Menges ("A World Apart") directs this story of a lonely postmaster in a quiet village who sees life’s precious moments passing...

6.4

280 votes

6.4

280 votes

The Lost Son

1999 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Chris Menges

Cast Daniel Auteuil · Nastassja Kinski · Katrin Cartlidge · Marianne Denicourt

Plot Xavier Lombard is a world-weary private eye in London, in exile from his native Paris; his best friend is Nathalie, a high-class call girl. He gets a call from an...

5.6

120 votes

5.6

120 votes

CrissCross

1992 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Chris Menges

Cast Goldie Hawn · David Arnott · Arliss Howard · James Gammon

Plot Set in 1969, a twelve-year-old grows up in Key West with his mother, who is paying the bills by stripping at the local topless bar. The boy finds out about...

4.7

122 votes

4.7

122 votes